By Ahalya D Nair
Mother is a real blessing of God upon this world. It is with the prayers and blessing of our mothers that we always become successful in every walk of life.
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By Ahalya D Nair
Mother is a real blessing of God upon this world. It is with the prayers and blessing of our mothers that we always become successful in every walk of life.
Image Copyright : Ahalya D Nair

By Chandana Nair and Krishna Manila
Regardless of whether it’s a move in social standards, legislative issues, culture, or innovation, design has consistently demonstrated the present time ever. Through the span of the only remaining century or thereabouts, design has moved from tidy and-appropriate dresses to father tennis shoes and suit sets. Navigate to investigate the absolute most unmistakable style staples from consistently from the twentieth century ahead.
1900S: BUSTLE DRESS
Clamors were added to ladies’ dresses as a cushioned underwear beginning in the late nineteenth century and into the mid twentieth century. They were principally used to include completion and bolster the drapery of the real dress, considering huge numbers of them were made with overwhelming texture. Clamors were worn under the skirt in the rear of the dress, set just beneath the midriff so as to keep the skirt from delaying the floor. Now and again, clamors were worn related to crinolines, which were steel outlines situated under the skirt to help clamors and widen the back area.
1900S: GLOVES
In the mid twentieth century, gloves were worn essentially wherever paying little mind to the event. They were viewed as ordinary in numerous ladies’ lives and inside their particular closets. During the day, calfskin and softened cowhide gloves were commonly worn around the house. During the night and on exceptional events, ribbon or silk-lined gloves were worn, and they were generally longer long. In the wintertime, gloves were fixed with fleece or hide to keep warm.
1910S: JUPE CULOTTE
As amazing French originator Paul Poiret went to the tallness of notoriety in Paris as one of the most renowned couture houses pre-World War I, he made the ageless jupe culotte. Poiret was the primary couturier to split away from the Edwardian style in both shading and outline by utilizing a lively shading palette and looser shapes in his plans. His new tasteful was first presented in 1911 and took overwhelming motivation from the group of concubines gasp style predominant in many Middle Eastern societies.
1910S: LAMPSHADE TUNIC
Poiret additionally created another imaginative outline during the 1910s, known as the lampshade tunic. This projecting outline was finished with a wire band, making the roundabout shape at the base, thus the comparing lampshade name. This was one of Poiret’s contemporary plans that was intended to be worn without an undergarment. His fun-loving way to deal with design drove the path for comparative styles to occur in the next decade.
1920S: FLAPPER DRESS
The flapper dress rose to prominence during the 1920s. The drop abdomen move style joined by the enhancing globules, periphery, and different embellishments added lively components to the dress that mirrored the extravagance of the decade. Enormous social change present WWI caused ladies on feel engaged due to picking up the option to cast a ballot in 1920. The overwhelming pervasiveness of Jazz music and disallowance likewise propelled carelessness among the young. This cultural move made for ideal planning for the flapper dress to offer an unpredictably upscale expression, alongside the short bounce haircut that was regularly worn related to the dress.
1920S: CLOCHE HAT
The cap is one frill that each lady had in her closet. The cloche cap specifically came into prevalence during the 1920s because of its remarkable ringer shape. Its round crown and little overflow was complemented by a shortsighted embellishment like a bow, bloom, or workmanship deco-enlivened shape. As a rule, ladies needed to tilt their head back while they were wearing it in light of the fact that the low-overflow made it somewhat hard to see.
1930S: EVENING GOWNS
Many consider the 1930s the “Brilliant Age of Glamor.” Given the financial setting in the years following the Great Depression, this decade was about available lavishness which made the prepared wear market to detonate inside the U.S. Old Hollywood stars would be imagined on the cinema wearing long, risqué evening outfits made of silk, velvet, or chiffon and would copy an attractive dream that numerous American ladies needed to impersonate in their own lives.
1930S: FUR STOLE
By the 1930s, hide in style had gotten increasingly ordinary in regular society. The cost of hide started to climb, and it was viewed as an extravagance to claim a bit of hide in your closet. While fur garments were progressively famous towards the start of the twentieth century, styles started to contract and abbreviate as they turned out to be increasingly worthy to wear during the daytime.
1940S: BOILER SUITS
In December 1941, the U.S. authoritatively entered WWII. A huge number of men were drafted into the war, in this way leaving a tremendous requirement for more ladies to enter the workforce. From office to processing plant occupations, ladies started assuming control over the positions recently involved by men. These new positions required workwear dress that was explicitly intended for ladies’ bodies. They started wearing heater suits, or coveralls in occupations that necessary all the more genuinely requesting work. These evaporator suits were regularly made of denim or heavyweight cotton canvas, included fastens down the front, and were commonly baggy all through, making them simple to get in and out of. The modern look of these suits changed the course of womenswear throughout the following quite a few years. Not exclusively were ladies demonstrating that they could do regularly male overwhelmed employments, however that their closet didn’t need to be so limiting either. Rosie the Riveter, who wore a blue evaporator suit, turned into a social image of this development.
1940S: CHRISTIAN DIOR’S NEW LOOK
Christian Dior’s New Look assortment that appeared in 1947 presented another outline that would before long assume control over the style world. The organized shoulders, highlighted waistline, and voluminous layered skirt showed a particular visual complexity to pre-war styles. A large number of the articles of clothing right now the course that style took, and soon Dior’s female New Look was imitated in boutiques everywhere throughout the world.
1950S: PEARL JEWELRY
The ’50s realized a period of local refinement for ladies in Western culture because of the time of increased birth rates age post-WWII. Ladies were relied upon to remain at home, and look great while doing family errands. This June Cleaver-eque way of life mirrored the TV character’s style, also, with the promotion of pearl adornments. Pearl pieces of jewelry specifically are most firmly connected with ladies’ polish during this time.
By Aishwarya Vasanth & Soma Dutta
In today’s world, Globalizing is leading the greater ship, and is not intending to stop, ever. In such a place, Trans- National Marriage, a direct product of globalization, is not something uncommon. So basically, trans national marriage is when people from two different countries decide to get married! This sort of marriage evolves out of various different reasons! Some of them are individual and some are business purpose.
Love, is of course one of the major reasons for cross- country marriages!
A person visiting the host country simply falls in love with the other person, with the culture of that place. Along with these, a simple attraction towards foreign lands also encourages this sort of marriage, which can be seen in the case of those who love to travel and discover places of their taste!
Not only that, regard or deep feeling for a certain cultural and religious practice can also be the reason!
Besides this, of course there are business reasons. There come various reasons under this one.
In order to get a permanent citizenship for a desired job or anything else, marrying a citizen of that country proves to be a solution in many cases. We can see this in the movie “The Proposal”, in which, when New York editor Margaret (Sandra Bullock) faces deportation to Canada, she convinces her assistant Andrew(Ryan Reynolds) to marry her in return for a promotion.
Then we have business-deal marriages or political marriages, where a marriage between two families shows the partnership between the two companies.
Sounds primitive, right? This was there during the ancient times also, where the king would marry off his daughter to the neighboring kingdom in order to maintain a healthy relation between the provinces.
For instance, to establish a healthy political tie between the Mughals and Rajputanas, Mariam-uz-Zamani, a born Hindu-Rajput princess was offered in marriage to Akbar by her father, Raja Bharmal of Amber in the year of 1562.
Now, like every other thing, a trans-national marriage too has both pros and cons. Well, mostly, it depends upon the person’s perspective, how they take it. But let’s list down all the possible merits and demerits.
MERITS
When two people with completely different backgrounds are tied down together, a diffusion takes places. Ideologies from one set of culture mixes up with the other set, thus eventually, diversifying their mind! Cultural diffusion is why many cultures around the world share similarities.
Because of the diversification, it also polishes each other for a better shine!
Few practices of Culture A might not be right for the society, and that’s where culture B comes into play. Thus diffusion of two different culture can possibly bring the best out of them, and rinse away the unnecessary matters.
Though it is not an outcome of cross-country marriage, but because of colonization only, the practice of child marriage and ‘Sati Pratham’, which prevailed in the Hindu customs, was abolished, thus opening bigger opportunities for all the girls.
This also reduces the chances of social discrimination for the future generation.
Not only this, the mind also becomes more flexible, thus making space for newer opportunities. People learn how to live with and manage different situations of life! A combination of two different sets of minds can lead to beautiful things!
DEMERITS
Even though diffusion is good, but what about the next generation? Which culture do they follow? That’s a point to think about! Suppose an Indian and an American are married, should their kid bow down and greet elders or should they hug and handshake with elders? Should they focus more onto the society or should they give more attention to the individual aspect?
Though this might not be applicable for all the cases, but they are not to be neglected also!
Along with this, what about the roots or the origin? They belong to which roots?
Because of trans- national marriage there is also a chance that people might lose their originality. Everything will be just a mix up.
On one hand two different cultures can polish each other, but on the other hand it can also lead to a clash. Being habituated to our native practices, it is very difficult to suddenly accept dissimilar habits.
And at times this can lead to a clash between partners.
A very typical, yet cliché example- Suppose a western girl marries an Indian boy. Generally, as seen in most of the cases in India, the whole family gets too much involved in the marital life of the individuals. As this is quite different from the western culture, the girl might feel crowded with the constant involvement of family and relatives and this might lead to a fight between the married couple.
Thus, the clashing of cultures can create serious issues!
But whatever might be the demerits, this practice is quite popular in today’s time. To be honest, it solely depends on the individual how they deal with the issues. There are two options, either you give up, or you fight!
However, isn’t this an interesting concept? Growing up in a certain environment, and whoosh! Suddenly you are in a different world!
P.S : As two different minds have written this article, we decided to add our own opinions about the concept of ‘Trans- National Marriage’
Aishwarya Vasanth– “I am not in support of Trans- National Marriages. Let’s consider the case of our country. India is still a developing country that has not achieved the heights of development yet. During this time, emigration of our people to another country is like losing an asset, something we can’t afford right now. From my opinion, Trans- National Marriage is not necessary.”
Soma Dutta– “I believe that Trans- National Marriage is a beautiful concept. Right now, we need to transcend the concept of ‘this is mine, that is yours’. Through this only we’ll come to understand the needs of each other. Trans- National Marriage is a step toward it. When two people from different countries marry, they realize that they are filled with so many prejudices. So, through this way we are actually sweeping out all the stereotype thoughts which all of us have, thus making the world a better place, in a way.”